The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotations
Silence
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.
-Cecelia Ahern
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
